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Ria P · 11-06-2021, 02:52 AM

You are going to save yourself so much time and money now. By doing weekly full cleans you must have been cleaning clean cages and your hamsters must have been very tolerant. Many hamsters get very stressed and upset when all their scents and hoards get removed.

I only do a full cage clean when there is a good reason for it as already mentioned above.

I think that the advice of weekly cleans goes back to the 70's and times when people housed hamsters in tiny cages. Things have progressed since then but many books, internet sites and pet shops haven't moved forward and still dish out outdated information.

11-06-2021, 02:52 AM
Ria P House of Hamsters Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,103	Re: How often should you do a full cage clean? You are going to save yourself so much time and money now. By doing weekly full cleans you must have been cleaning clean cages and your hamsters must have been very tolerant. Many hamsters get very stressed and upset when all their scents and hoards get removed. I only do a full cage clean when there is a good reason for it as already mentioned above. I think that the advice of weekly cleans goes back to the 70's and times when people housed hamsters in tiny cages. Things have progressed since then but many books, internet sites and pet shops haven't moved forward and still dish out outdated information.